Word: six-year-old
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...wore pink or green coats to watch the judging of hunter classes. There were 30 fewer classes than last year, but most of the best U. S. show horses?with a few notable exceptions, like William DuPont's grey hunters Quarryman and Quarrymaster, Mrs. William P. Roth's five-gaited saddler, Chief of Longview?were entered. Young horses, such as Mountain Pippin, a three-gaited saddle horse owned by Jane's Place; Lieutenant W. M. Cleland's six-year-old Irish hunter Margot; H. Hollon Crowell's hunter Sir Conrad?won more than their usual share of blues...
Mike Hall was one of the starters in the Arlington Handicap last week, feature race of the last day of Chicago's principal summer race meeting. He finished fourth. First by three lengths was six-year-old Sun Beau. The winner's prize, $27,300, added to his previous winnings, made him the greatest money horse in the history of the U. S. turf, with $330,044 compared to the $328,165* which Gallant Fox had won when he was retired last autumn. A U. S. horse who has won more than Sun Beau: Goldsmith Maid, trotting mare...
...Willis Sharpe Kilmer's six-year-old race horse Sun Beau: the $19,450 Arlington Cup race, at Chicago, increasing his total winnings to $302,794 ($37,871 below the record made by Gallant...
...prodigious. Little Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a harpsichordist at three, a composer at four. Ludwig van Beethoven fiddled at five; Johann Sebas tian Bach permitted himself, a small moppet, to be discovered poring over music at night in the garret. But Bob and Ted Maier, five-and six-year-old sons of Guy Maier, who was Lee Pattison's two-piano partner until last March (TIME, March 2), are no altruistic prodigies. They compose and write lyrics only when bribed to do so by their father. Last week was published their first songbook: Sons; Cargo (G. Schirmer...
When Eugène Ysaÿe was a six-year-old boy in Liége his father once let him sit among the orchestra players at an opera he was conducting. Most children would have been fascinated by the action on the stage but the Belgian conductor's child behaved that day in a manner which determined his career. He ignored the stage, watched the violinists with open-mouthed wonder...